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Tuesday, September 10, 2013

iOS 7 Language Specs Published

It looks to be the same as for iOS 6 except for the addition of keyboard and dictionary support for Tamil, English (Canadian), and English (Australian). Although not mentioned in the specs, I understand Chinese/Pinyin includes a new "10 key" option, which is something Chinese users have long wanted.

Also not mentioned are the new reference dictionaries: Chinese-English, Korean, Korean-English, Italian, Dutch (added to the English, German, French, Spanish, Japanese, and Japanese-English already available earlier).

Update 9/24/13: The 10-key Chinese IM is so far only available in China. A full list of keyboard layouts elsewhere can be found here. One new one I noticed is an ABNT2 hardware layout for Portuguese, which will be welcome in Brazil.